New hips at the age of 22????
Yes.
Well, not exactly in a way that you're thinking of it. I did not have a total hip replacement. But, I did need some work done to my hip. Well both hips to be exact but I'll get into that here in a moment.
I had hip surgery in my left hip for FAI cam-typw hip inpingement with a torn labrum. Now what this means is that the top of my femur bone was malformed. It wasn't completely round and it was more or less flat on one side. This caused my labrum to be torn because it kept rubbing and grinding against it. It also caused some tearing in my cartilage.
What they did in my surgery was shave and reshape my femur bone, repair the labrum tear and cleaned up the cartilage and arthritis in my hip joint. It was a 2.5-3 hour surgery.
I am now about 2.5 weeks post op. And I'm doing really well. I had my first post op follow up with my hip surgeon and I got the stitches out. Which by the way, did not hurt. And I got to see the oddly interesting pictures of my hip. Which looked kinda gross but also was intriguing.
I'm still on crutches at 50% weight bearing and will be on crutches for about 3-4 more weeks. He wants to make sure that my soft tissue heals properly due to my Classical Ehlers-Danlos. Which was a good call. Also, once I am completely off crutches I can also have the brace off as well. Which will be kind of nice.
But honestly I'm pleased with how well this has gone. I've noticed a difference already with my left hip compared to my right hip. Once I heal from this surgery we will be doing the same procedure to my right hip.
I'm honestly kind of worried for my right hip that due to me putting most of my weight on it and using it a lot more that it will be worse than my left. But I guess we will just have to see!
But, all in all this was definitely a good choice for me to make. I'm glad that I made the decision otherwise my hips will be a lot more worse off than what they already are.